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Is there any doubt left that the model of family medicine in our province is broken? The signs are everywhere. Older GPs can’t find replacements when they retire.

The capital region’s trail system is a victim of its own success. The popularity of the Galloping Goose and Lochside trails has led to problems, including congestion and friction between cyclists and pedestrians.

We applaud Premier Christy Clark’s efforts to look abroad, particularly to Asia, to expand markets for sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s resources, services and expertise. The more trading connections, the better.

It seems the Harper government’s idea of freedom of the press is to take news content for free and use it for political purposes.

It’s gratifying to see the bottleneck at McKenzie Avenue and the Trans-sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Highway is now on the province’s radar screen. An overpass at that intersection would be welcome.

Liquefied natural gas, the big, shiny bauble Premier Christy Clark dangled before voters in the 2013 election, doesn’t appear to be so big and so shiny now.

Victoria city councillors are wise to back away from initiating a living-wage policy, not because the concept is a bad one, but because it is beyond the scope of one municipal council. At a Victoria council committee meeting last week, Coun.

They came, they rode, they conquered.

From one side of the country to the other, it seems as if our government institutions, federal and provincial, are retreating. Here in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, the province means to hold spending below the cost of living for the better part of a decade.

Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard is proposing his municipality dip its toe — ever so cautiously — into the issue of amalgamation, but that step, tentative though it may be, will help advance the discussion on this complex issue.